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@TheBinarySheep Golf R's, GTI's. Audi RS etc etc as vRS are sold as having a Max PS / Nm, and that is on 95 ron. It is not the Max it is the minimum you should expect when never above 3,000 ft above sea level and not in extreme temperatures. You pay for the car and the power it comes with, if with 95 it is lower you were robbed. If with higher octane you get more performance then that is good. So they are not 'down on anything with 95 ron. As it is the figures are what they are sold to you, or you get a bit more in the UK / EU. They can be better as VW says on Super 98, but then nobody in the UK sells 98 anymore. it is 97 min or 99 minimum. https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/need-help/need-help-faqs/fuel

@TheBinarySheep Are there no Tesco filling stations around for Tesco Momentum 99 which is a min 99 ron, or Sainsbury's with 97 ron? As it is you might just manage to keep up with other traffic and be able to reach 70 mph with a tail wind.

What are they saying they will do for £250? Get it itemised. Oil & Filter, Brake Fluid, Pollen Filter etc etc. *If the brakes have never been serviced then maybe time that they were, not just visually inspected.* It needs the Oil & Filter change, the pollen filter if you want. (since not changed @ 2 years.) the Brake Fluid is due a change so are the doing that for the £250. Brake Fluid is £60 on the Fixed Price Menu. Brake Checks are free at Main Dealerships at every visit, or were. The Fixed Service & Maintenance has changed to Oil & Inspection Services and Extended Scope each 3 years, and them supplying and fitting parts are expensive now.

If at the bottom of the rod when they topped it up, and if cold, it could still have been low on oil, or not at the level you would get checking as they are to be checked, @ Normal Operating Temperature. Which is above 80*oC indicated oil temp.

? Was that with it zeroed before starting off? Has the good ladies car had a new air filter fitted or checked recently, tyre pressures checked, spark plugs replaced so running how it can run the most efficient that it can?

@Racataian Some 1.8 and some 2.0 TSI Euro 5 emission engines had this issue of high oil consumption even failure. Well documented. If 100% of them had the VW Group would not have got away with them all being lemons.

@Wet Kipper Do you know when the car was built, when it came into the UK, and when the PDI was done, and was the PDI done weeks or months before the car was First Registered. *Maybe they had it in the Showroom Un-Registered /so no VED on it, and had to Register it before the end of 3 months, end of a Quarter.* ? When does your Manufacturers Warranty End?, it should be 3 years from when First Registered. So on Variable servicing the first service from the PDI being done is at 24 months. or 18,000 -20,000 miles. But a Member posted last week that their 18 month / 16,000 TDI was coming up for an Oil Service. Maybe these bunlered cars from the time of waiting to get WLTP Certification are coming up early for oil changes due to just how long the VW508 00 / VW 509 00 0w 20 FS IV crap oil has been in them. Months sitting in engines in cars stored who knows where before ever getting to the UK.

You tell them they made an error so re-test and look down at the DRL / Sidelight unit, start the car and if the DRL's are on because the switch beside the fuse is not at off, or even if off, they are DRL's. If on they are bright. Then turn on the side lights / position lights. The Sidelights come on front and rear, turn to headlights, and they stay on with the headlights. It is the DRL / Sidelight unit less bright when on as Sidelights / Position Lights. There is no Fail on Sidelights / Position lights, they work as they did when the car left the factory. ....................................... While MOT Testers have failed Mk2 vRS for no sidelights, there have been Police Officers stopped drivers because they had Front Fog Lights on. There are even car salespeople that argue that the cars has front fog lights, but then that is because Skoda said in Brochures that they have, and that still shows on 'Autotrader' when you look at the cars Spec. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/305852-pulled-over-for-having-drls-on http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/302841-police-roadside-check-what-a-joke http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/189311-got-stopped-by-the-police-today

? Did you check the oil at normal operating temperature after it was serviced so that you know there was enough oil in then, or is this the first time checked since someone else put the oil in? ? how old is it?

It has to be remembered that until a couple of years ago Skoda still said 40,000 miles or 4 years for a Haldex Oil change while some at VW were saying the same and maybe 30,000 miles, and some were already saying scheduled at 3 years. So from 2010 Skoda were saying @2014, and then it could be 2017 or 2018 depending who the car went into.

Flashing Sidelights!

You are fine with a VAT registered establishment, genuine parts, and an itemised invoice & receipt. There are even Independents with Licensed equipment that gives them TPI's, Software Updates and they can put the service on the system.

No, But @UrbanPanzercan tell you what to do. Look out for his excellent guides on how too. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/467971-todays-little-mod-episode-2-vrs-side-lights

Usually it just a case of using the plastic bike tyre lever type tool provided and getting the seal correct;y seated and manipulating the wind deflector by a small amount you can slide it back and fore.

It is how Skoda / VW roll. They make sure pre-production cars that are nor production ready are photographed and filmed and posted on Social Media as a tease. Then when the cars are available they are not as you watched or read about. They built up the Skoda Electric cars and finally the Citigo iV is on sale and available and in the UK there are only 400 imported. Years of teasing, loads of social media and you tube coverage then just a damp sqib.

@Baverhanne When you are at the steering wheel and the roads are great the tyres and pressures are right and there are no camera van all you care about is that it does the job and not how it gets to doing the job.

The Spark Plugs, Air Filter were in the 2nd Major Service @ £279. As were Fuel Filters, at the Schedule Change. Problem / con was they were not in the Major Service in between @ £279 as well. Then the £279 was for a Citigo as well with 3 spark plugs and a lot less oil. The £99 spark plug price is the same for a 1.0TSI 3 Cylinder as it is for a 4 cylinder. They are taking the pith.

@Gav23 Really you need to ask the person you spoke to to get a Professional Technician to talk to them. The Spark Plugs were at the 2nd Major Service which was 4 years / 40,000 miles, a d some Service Staff would say that was at 60,000 or 65,000 miles. You paid the same for a 1st and 2nd Major service and might or might not get Plugs, Air or Fuel filters. So now some at Skoda dealerships have the plugs at 60,000 miles in their Guidelines. As it is i would not pay them £99 to supply and fit them. Nor £35 for a Pollen filter or £45 for an air filter. Or their Oil Service & Inspection and extended scope prices. Bottom, and Skoda are showing plugs at 4 years / 40,000 miles again. Pollen Filter every 2 years, and they have put the Air Filter to 6 years / 60,000 miles. I would be checking the Air Filter every year and replacing if needed, as they are a location location location thing on how dirty / clogged they can get, or damp.

The steering weights up when you go faster. Fiat Punto and other Fiat's and the Toyota iQ had a 'Ladies button', for light steering in town / parking, and lovely they are for laddies as well.

The only snow today was on the high tops in the Cairngorms and nothing on the Snow Road routes. Not even much traffic.

There is no sidelight bulb there as there are combined sidelight / DRL units. Sidelights dimmer than the DRL,s. There have been dim MOT testers that have failed vRS,s because they had sidelights not coming on. One failed one of my cars for this reason and as a favour roved the blue dummies to fit sidelight bulbs for me. @UrbanPanzer has the sidelights working in the headlights.

@J.R. Changing the steering assist to less did not change anything other than giving the feeling of heavier steering, and that felt better in spirited driving. The same could happen with wider tyres being fitted. The point is it can be felt and needs tried to see the difference from a skittery feeling to the steering to feeling as though you have control. The new cars should not feel as though they have vague steering but some can. But then tyres and pressures can be the reason for that and are an easy thing to change before starting replacing suspension parts or upgrading. When it can be done with simply plugging in and resetting Steering Assist it is free to try, and if you never try you will never know. As it is in the UK where the NSL is 60 when there is just a single lane, then the steering being lazy can be good enough for the majority if corners are being taken at maybe 60 mph, and on roads with more lanes at 70 mph and a bit. @Baverhanne A MINI SE is not a Hybrid, it is an Electric Car with no ICE engine, and rather heavy and has tyres that are to help the range and not the traction. Even with the tyres they have the range is pathetic, and if getting a demonstrator remember to go check the tyre pressures because many Demonstrators tyres are over inflated so that the range does not show as pathetic as they are. Makes for a rather detached steering feeling though, and not the safest either if just a driver going out to see how a car performs. I would hope that Harry had got out the Tyre Pressure Gauge and checked if the car was handed over to him with the Tyres on an an ECO pressure setting. they usually are and it really makes a difference if you lower the pressure if it is only you, some cameras and an empty boot.

That is exactly what it means. So best contact Skoda UK Customer Services who are the Importers and ask are there any in Stock in the UK or intransit. (Not all dealerships will bother if the cars are not destined to them or their Motor Group, and so other Dealership might have ones coming to them.)

Do you mean on a Variable Service Regime, rather than Plan? A Plan is you having paid monthly or in advance to have services or part of the purchase of an Approved Used Skoda maybe.. Skoda UK dropped the Minor/ Interim and Major Service names. Now they are Oil & Inspection Services, and Extended Scope Services each 3 years. So get the servicing the car needs if the last 'Major Service' was @ 2 years, and was just Oil & Filter & a Pollen Filter. If you just want an Oil & Filter change and a Pollen filter just get that. But the Brake Fluid might not have been changed if no service last year. It is first @ 3 years then each 2 years. *Maybe get an Independent Specialist to Service the car, Service the Brakes etc, because Skoda Main Dealerships do very little actual Servicing.